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NAMI gave the state credit for comprehensive health care reform, expansion of the state's parity law, reduction of the use of restraint and seclusion that serves as a national model, and the use of clinical performance measures for Medicaid services.

Other states have paid millions of dollars for breaking restraint and seclusion laws.

Thus, chemical restraints have not been a factor in reducing physical restraint and seclusion.

In the preamble to that interim final rule, CMS explained that it was considering adopting a consistent restraint and seclusion standard that would apply not only to hospitals but to all health care entities which participate in the Medicare or Medicaid programs.

The studies also recommend that restraint and seclusion techniques should be practiced only as emergency measures to address dangerous aggression in children and adolescents in psychiatric inpatient treatment.

amp;bull; Restraint and seclusion reduction — The leadership of the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors drives a national culture change.

Historically, such conditions have created a high frequency of restraint and seclusion abuse, such as using the procedures to dominate, subordinate, and punish individuals.

Documenting restraints: What you need to know Documenting means more than checking a box Restraint and seclusion has been a hot topic in emergency departments (EDs) at least since 1999, when the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS, then known as the Health Care Financing Administration) established a Condition of Participation that set new and stringent rules regarding the practice of restraining patients.